The Social Science Journal articles from April 1997

The Social Science Journal archives from April 1997

Gender and race in the state house: the legislative experience.
April 1, 1997... Women and minorities have been entering politics in record-breaking numbers since the early 1970s. While only about eight percent of state legislators were women in 1974, by 1994 the numbers had nearly tripled to 21 percent. African Americans...

The 'real' New Zealand: rural mythologies perpetuated and commodified.
April 1, 1997... The pakeha (white New Zealander) rural colonial myth was perpetuated by, and for, early European settlers of New Zealand. People migrated across the world for a way of life that eluded them in industrial revolutionary Britain. Promises of a...

The movement for church unity in Christianity: contributing factors.
April 1, 1997... The ecumenical movement refers to that movement among Christians attempting to restore a unity which was lost a millennium ago between Catholics and Orthodox, and half a millennium ago between Catholics and Protestants (Fries, 1985; Meyer,...

Effects of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest: post traumatic stress disorder symptomatology among law enforcement officers.
April 1, 1997... During the Los Angeles civil disturbances of April 29, 1992 and the following days, law enforcement officers were in the unique position of being perceived as both the "instigative reason" for the unrest, and the city department authorized to...

Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts: institutional patterns and arts funding, 1965-1994.
April 1, 1997... This article examines the history of congressional support of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), with particular attention to the effect of chamber differences and institutional reform on funding levels. While a voluminous literature on...

Seasonality-cointegration and the inflation, productivity and wage growth relationship in Greece.
April 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Many studies have tried to identify the adverse effect of inflation on macroeconomic variables, especially on output and productivity growth. Most arguments justify why increases in price inflation can have a negative effect on...

Human rights considerations and U.S. foreign policy: the Latin American experience.
April 1, 1997... "One cannot have peace only for oneself and calmly accept that for most of mankind, or most of the globe, repression reigns and suffocates people." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Worldwide, respect for human rights as a legitimate international...

The Feminine Quest for Success: How to Prosper in Business and be True to Yourself.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Jacqueline Stanfield, University of Northern Colorado The general purpose of both of these books is to examine the topic of women balancing their business life and personal life and to describe how women can be successful in...

On Our Own Terms: Portraits of Women Business Leaders.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Jacqueline Stanfield, University of Northern Colorado The general purpose of both of these books is to examine the topic of women balancing their business life and personal life and to describe how women can be successful in...

Emergences: Women's Struggles for Livelihood in Latin America.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Laura T. Raynolds, Colorado State University Over the past fifteen years, women in Latin America have struggled to counter the negative repercussions of economic crisis and retrenchment of the nation-state. The essays in this...

Controlling State Crime: An Introduction.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Larry A Gould, Northern Arizona University Controlling State Crime: An Introduction is one of several recent attempts to provide some meaning to the term "state crime." This is an edited volume which attempts to make a...

The United Nations at the Crossroads of Reform.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Valerie J. Assetto, Colorado State University In The United Nations at the Crossroads of Reform, Wendell Gordon makes a familiar critique of the many faults and failures of the UN's first fifty years, yet his recommendations for...

With Reverence and Contempt: How Americans Think About Their President.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Samuel B. Hoff, Delaware State University The ambiguity in the president's roles as assigned by the American people is the subject of Thomas Langston's work. Describing the presidency as "a veritable priest-king, the most...

Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society.
April 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Raghu N. Singh, Texas A & M University, Commerce This book is second in a series from George Ritzer toward an "application" of the conceptualization of Max Weber's rationalization process. The first book, published in 1993 by the...